From: Jean-Marc Desperrier (jean-marc.desperrier@certplus.com)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 10:22:41 CST
Erland Sommarskog wrote:
> So users of VT220 emulating clients, could run into surprises with
> UTF-8 names for non-Western scripts.
Indeed.
But UTF-8 is becoming more and more frequent.
The main reason the user of this clients will have problems will not be usenet messages.
I have already dumped an SSH client I was using, because 8 bit data was causing it to do too many strange
things.
I now use putty, and only 0x9b and 0x9d in the range 0x80-0x9F make it react it any way, and the effect ot the
most annoying 0x9d, stop at the first end of line encountered.
And this 8-bit cleanless is definitively one of the reasons I use it.
Displaying usenet messages with this characters, would generate some garbage on screen, but nothing that
annoying, and if I really wanted to understand the messages involved I'd update my client to one that understand
utf-8.